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[lojban] Re: Any volunteers for "Phrasebook. A multilingual dictionary"? (No Lojban skills required)



On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:33:28 PM UTC+4, iesk wrote:
I added some translations. However, I’m sceptical of the possibility that an anonymous spreadsheet combined with this here message board might lead to a quality-wise better phrasebook than Tatoeba, which is, in comparison, a very sophisticated environment. While Tatoeba is still very chaotic and not reliable in any scholarly sense, the simple fact that there’s a comment area for each sentence does facilitate proofreading and serious discussion on details of translation, sometimes with enlightening results. Sorry, but I don’t understand how your file should lead to comparable, let alone better results.

1. Commenting IS possible for every cell of Google spreadsheet.
2. This phrasebook presents only sentences that are most important for normal speech. Therefore it won't be chaotic. No quotes from Shakespear or something (although we might add such things on separate sheets but it would be a distinct project anyway).
3. It can also give situational dialogues which are largely absent in Tatoeba but which bear even more semantic meaning and integrity than simple sentences.



-iesk

Le samedi 8 septembre 2012 18:19:15 UTC+2, la gleki a écrit :
Tatoeba proved to be of less significance due to low quality of translated sentences and the lack of opportunities to proofread them.

So I created this file https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ahngu1CNj7wddHBqSk9nT0JmcTJ2bXcyLTFtTERZUnc

I'm in the process of translating Lojban column.
You are free to add
1. Rows for other useful phrases.
2. Columns for your native languages (so you are not even required to be familiar with Lojban at all).

Any feedback is welcome.

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